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The English Novel in History 1840-1895.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 1996Copyright date: ©1997Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780203132135
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823.809358
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Contents:
BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- DEDICATION -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 1 NARRATIVE AND NATURE -- PROLOGUE: A PATTERN AND A PURPOSE -- NARRATIVE WITH CLOUDS OF GLORY -- NATURE KNOWS BEST: THE BRONTËS AND THACKERAY -- RHETORIC AND HISTORY: SEQUENCE IN THE BRONTËS, THACKERAY AND EARLY DICKENS -- NARRATIVE IN THE WASTELAND -- MOVING ON -- 2 THE IDEA OF HISTORY -- PROLOGUE: GETTING COORDINATES -- CONSTRUCTING HISTORICAL (SOCIAL) TIME -- MEDIATE POWER -- EMERGENT FORM -- 3 SOCIETY AS AN ENTITY -- PROLOGUE: THE SYMPHONY -- IS THERE SUCH A THING AS SOCIETY? -- THE ECONOMIC EXPERIMENT WITH CORPORATE ORDER -- CRUISING THE BOUNDARIES OF DIFFERENCE: CLASS, PERSONALITY, SYSTEM -- Class differences: seeing things whole in Dickens -- Personal differences: Trollope and life in nuance -- Systemic differences: George Eliot and the world as language -- 4 DILEMMAS OF DIFFERENCE -- DIFFERENCE AS DUALITY: CLUB, CLASS, CLAN -- HOME IS WHERE THE FAULT-LINE IS -- RUNNING COSTS OF THE MARRIAGE MARKET -- WOMEN AND TIME -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- NINETEENTH-CENTURY SOURCES -- TWENTIETH-CENTURY SOURCES -- INDEX.
Summary: This invaluable introduction for students examines the Victorian novel in depth, tracing its form and also placing it in its historical context. Key novelists of the period are discussed, including Eliot, Dickens, Thackeray and the Brontes.
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BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- DEDICATION -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 1 NARRATIVE AND NATURE -- PROLOGUE: A PATTERN AND A PURPOSE -- NARRATIVE WITH CLOUDS OF GLORY -- NATURE KNOWS BEST: THE BRONTËS AND THACKERAY -- RHETORIC AND HISTORY: SEQUENCE IN THE BRONTËS, THACKERAY AND EARLY DICKENS -- NARRATIVE IN THE WASTELAND -- MOVING ON -- 2 THE IDEA OF HISTORY -- PROLOGUE: GETTING COORDINATES -- CONSTRUCTING HISTORICAL (SOCIAL) TIME -- MEDIATE POWER -- EMERGENT FORM -- 3 SOCIETY AS AN ENTITY -- PROLOGUE: THE SYMPHONY -- IS THERE SUCH A THING AS SOCIETY? -- THE ECONOMIC EXPERIMENT WITH CORPORATE ORDER -- CRUISING THE BOUNDARIES OF DIFFERENCE: CLASS, PERSONALITY, SYSTEM -- Class differences: seeing things whole in Dickens -- Personal differences: Trollope and life in nuance -- Systemic differences: George Eliot and the world as language -- 4 DILEMMAS OF DIFFERENCE -- DIFFERENCE AS DUALITY: CLUB, CLASS, CLAN -- HOME IS WHERE THE FAULT-LINE IS -- RUNNING COSTS OF THE MARRIAGE MARKET -- WOMEN AND TIME -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- NINETEENTH-CENTURY SOURCES -- TWENTIETH-CENTURY SOURCES -- INDEX.

This invaluable introduction for students examines the Victorian novel in depth, tracing its form and also placing it in its historical context. Key novelists of the period are discussed, including Eliot, Dickens, Thackeray and the Brontes.

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